Conceiving Ada
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Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She manages to reach the world of Ada Lovelace, founder of the idea of a computer language and proponent of the possibilities of the "difference engine." Ada's ideas were stifled and unfulfilled because of the reality of life as a woman in the nineteenth century. Emmy has a plan to defeat death and the past using her own DNA as a communicative agent to the past, bringing Ada to the present. But what are the possible ramifications?
Status: Released
Released Date: 1999-02-19
Runtime: 85 mins
Director: Lynn Hershman-Leeson
Writer: Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Eileen Jones
Spoken language: English
Genres: Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy
Original title: Conceiving Ada
Production Companies: Complex Corporation, Hotwire Productions, Outpost Studios
Production Countries: Canada, United States of America
Cast
Tilda Swinton
Francesca Faridany
Timothy Leary
Karen Black
John Perry Barlow
John O'Keefe
J.D. Wolfe
Owen Murphy
David Brooks
Esther Mulligan
Ellen Sebastian
Mark Capri
Joe Wemple
Chris von Sneidern
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